On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Ghee Teo <ghee....@oracle.com> wrote: > On 21/03/2011 17:02, Sandy Armstrong wrote: >> >> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Ghee Teo<ghee....@oracle.com> wrote: >>> >>> On 21/03/2011 12:29, Olav Vitters wrote: >>>> >>>> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 09:55:05AM +0000, Ghee Teo wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I hope this does not imply or infer that all the source tarball for >>>>> GNOME will be uploaded in .xz format only. Solaris is *not* >>>>> supporting .xz by default yet. This means, anyone who want to >>>>> compile source code modules will have difficulties. >>>> >>>> That is exactly what I meant. >>>> >>>> So: >>>> How do Solaris users get GNOME packages? Via ftp.gnome.org? >>> >>> Yes. We download them from ftp.gnome.org. >> >> By "we", do you mean end users or packagers? > > My "we" refers to users. >> >> Aren't only packagers (and distro build servers, etc) and advanced >> users impacted by the change to .xz? > > No. packagers are the source codes providers. > Users are the source code consumers.
I was assuming this model: Maintainers are source code providers. Packagers consume and produce binary packages. End-users consume those binaries and don't care about how the packagers get the source code. > GNOME requires both groups of users to exist meaningfully :) Sure. I guess I just didn't realize that Solaris end users were consuming GNOME source tarballs. Sandy _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list